Weymouth police arrest three on repeat drunken driving charges

Police arrested three people -- one each from Weymouth, Brockton and East Bridgewater -- on repeat drunken driving charges in a four-hour span Monday night into Tuesday morning, including a man who was charged with his fourth offense after police say he crashed his truck into a car.

Police arrested three people on repeat drunken driving charges in a four-hour span Monday night into Tuesday morning, including a man who was charged with his fourth offense after police say he crashed his truck into a car.

The arrests were part of an unusually busy day for police, who made 11 arrests between just before noon on Monday and 1 a.m. on Tuesday on charges including larceny, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violating an abuse prevention order.

But police Capt. Richard Fuller said the drunken driving arrests were particularly concerning.

“It’s disheartening to know there’s that many drunk drivers out there,” he said. “Some people just don’t get it.”

The first drunken driving arrest came at about 8:40 p.m. when police say an officer waiting at a stop light saw a pickup truck strike a car traveling in front of it on Main Street. When the officer spoke to the driver of the pickup, Leo J. Podolske, 48, of 228 Park Ave., Weymouth, Podolske smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred, Fuller said.

Podolske failed several field sobriety tests and was arrested and charged with fourth-offense drunken driving, Fuller said.

Podolske was arrested in Milton in 2007 and charged with third-offense drunken driving after police allegedly found him asleep behind of the wheel of his truck with the engine running in the middle of the street.

Just after 11:30 p.m. Monday, police responded to a report of a man and woman arguing in the parking lot of a King Avenue business. The caller also reported hearing a loud crash, Fuller said.

An officer stopped Sheila A. Kelly, 46, of 18 Corala Road in Brockton, as she was pulling out of the lot. She failed several field sobriety tests and was arrested and charged with second-offense drunken driving, vandalizing property and possession of a class E drug, Fuller said. Police also found that she had crashed her vehicle into a parked car behind the business, Fuller said.

Just over an hour later, police arrested Michael G. Young, 37, of 329 Belmont St. in East Bridgewater, after a woman reported he was driving by her house yelling at her, Fuller said. An officer pulled over Young’s vehicle on Commercial Street and arrested him on charges of third-offense drunken driving and violating an abuse prevention order.

All three had valid driver’s licenses, Fuller said. They were arraigned Tuesday in Quincy District Court.

Podolske was ordered held on $1,000 bail.

A judge ordered Kelly to be committed for alcohol treatment.

Young had his bail revoked in an open case in which he is charged with violating an abuse prevention order. His bail for the drunken driving charge was set at $1,500 cash.

They are due back in court next month.

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